BIOLOGY IQ4

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How do living things interact?

4.1 Construct food chains and food webs for organisms.

4.2 Identify organisms in food chains and food webs in the roles of producer, consumer (first, second, third order/level), decomposer, herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.

Play Switchzoo https://switchzoo.com/map.html

You are about to embark on a journey into the animal kingdom. Your mission is to create a new and unique creature by combining at least three animals that are already in existence. We will refer to this new and unique being as a switcheroo.

Start by clicking on one of the habitats. Do NOT click any links that say Download.
Then click on head and choose an animal, legs and choose an animal, tail and choose an animal.

4.1A Activity:

View video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLq2datPo5M [4.57 mins]
Complete Workbook p58

4.3 Predict how changes in biotic or abiotic factors might impact populations in a food web.

4.4 Describe examples of beneficial and harmful effects that micro-organisms can have on living things and their environment.

Complete activity http://www.cserc.org/sierra-fun/games/build-food-chain/

CSERC - Central Sierra Environmental Resource CenterCSERC is a key non-profit organization working to defend water, wildlife, and wild places across the Central Sierra in the Northern Yosemite region.

Build a food chain. An online game for kidsFood chain for american animals. Kids game where you build a food chain online and see the result right away. Play here!

Most consumers have different sources of food in an ecosystem and do not only rely on only one species for their food. Why is this an advantage for them?

If we put all the food chains within an ecosystem together, then we end up with many interconnected food chains. This is a food web. A food web is very useful to show the many different feeding relationships between different species within an ecosystem .

View video:

https://vimeo.com/channels/1034497/102781736 [5.48 mins]
Use the food web to answer the questions:

Write down two different food chains from this food web. Check the arrow direction!
Identify the levels for the four organisms in the food chain: tree, goat, jackal, lion
What level does the snake occupy in the food chain?

O-BIO-15 Food Chains , Food Webs , Energy Pyramid - Education Video for kids by makemegenius.com in Food WebThis is "O-BIO-15 Food Chains , Food Webs , Energy Pyramid - Education Video for kids by makemegenius.com" by PITB on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

Build a Food Web

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/activities/teaching-content/build-food-web/

Build a Food Web: An Endangered Ecosystems Activity | ScholasticThis fun interactive activity challenges students to match common predators of a Mexican ecosystem with their prey.

Impacts of natural events, people & industry on ecosystems: Pearson 5.3 and 5.4

Identify how fire monitoring technology assists to manage the impact of bushfires on Australian ecosystems.
Discuss traditional Indigenous practices using fire.
Describe some advances in agriculture, giving examples of how scientists have influenced the development of new practices.

TASK

Visit this link https://roseville-college.boxofbooks.io/book/19E034F0-6F11-11E6-B0B4A6A90D7669C2/webreader2 (or https://reader-sin-prod.gls.pearson-intl.com/readBook and select Pearson Science Year 7), then type in 198 in the small box at the top that says "cover".

Read Pages 198-206
Complete Unit Review questions on Page 207
Read Pages 210-216
Complete Unit Review questions on Page 217